Carthusian Psalter with musical notations

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  Carthusian Psalter

  Manuscripts

  Fourteen leaves from a rubricated Carthusian psalter believed to be from a 15th century mansucript, hand-written in Church Latin in a Gothic bookhand in black and red ink on vellum; 5 lines per page; tied to wooden boards.

  mssHM 80420

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  Psalter

  Manuscripts

  Two non-consecutive leaves from a psalter written in Italy.

  mssHM 80509

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  Psalter : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 5v-107. [Psalter]. Latin; French. The psalter is in biblical order, with antiphons and versicles added in the margins, s. XV, but later erased, except on f. 84v, where they were written straight on below the text. On ff. 107-115v, canticles, Quicumque vult; an alphabet: a-z, ampersand, punctuation marks and the ""et cetera"" abbreviation; Pater noster; Credo in deum; Magnificat. On f. 116r-v, litany of saints, beginning defectively. On f. 117r-v, in 3 different but contemporary gothic hands: Ave stella matutina . . . [RH 2135]; Tres sainte arme de ihesucrist santefie me . . . e me prene iouste toy ma suy ut cum beatis laudem in secula seculorum Amen; Du haut seignor de gloyre quil du ciel descendit/ Qui por nous devint homme e que iudas vendit . . . A Touz mes biens fetours presenz e de iadis/ Enuoit diex es cors ioie es ames paradis Amen. [in 25 monorhyme verses; listed by K. V. Sinclair, French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages: A Bibliographic Manuscript Guide (Westport, Connecticut, 1979) n. 2811.] Preceding the psalter, on ff. 1-4v, calendar in red and black, lacking 2 leaves after f. 2 with loss of May-August; included are the feasts of Vedast and Amand (6 February), ""Resurrectio domini"" (27 March), Invention of Denis (22 April), Bertin and Taurinus (5 September), Evurtius (7 September), Maurilius (13 September), Germar (24 September), Leodegar (2 October), Denis, Rusticus and Eleutherius (9 October), Mellonius (22 October), Romanus (23 October), Magloire (24 October), Hilary (25 October), Eustachius (2 November); 3 entries by a later hand: Eulalia of Barcelona (12 February), Michael (29 September), Conception of the Virgin (8 December); astrological month verses in Latin, beginning: Arva nemus prata dat aquarum ymbre rigata.

  mssHM 1054

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  Psalter, with collects : [manuscript]

  Manuscripts

  ff. 1-188v; ff. 189-194v blank. [Psalter]. Latin. Biblical psalter, each psalm proceded by a titulus and followed by collects (here "oratio"); the collects generally agree with the Roman series, except for 12 of the Hispanic series and 27 not precisely identified; collect R74 is copied twice, after Pss. 73 and 74; the collect after Ps. 118, 96 is R11811; after Ps. 118, 153 there are 4 collects. See L. Brou, The Psalter Collects. HBS 83 (London 1949). On ff. 167-177v, canticles; on ff. 177v-181v, Gloria, Credo, Pater noster, Te deum, Quicumque vult; on ff. 181v-187, litany including Germanus, Nicholas and Louis among the confessors; Benedict, Maurus, Placidus, Onuphrius and Leonard among the monks and hermits; Scholastica among the virgins; on ff. 187-188v, added, s. XVII, an index in Italian of the psalms for the office of the Virgin arranged according to the hours of the office, and index of the penitential and gradual psalms with reference to page numbers added to the text leaves by the same person.

  mssHM 1041

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  Gradual

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  Gradual is from an unidentified manuscript, written in black and red ink with decorated initials, five-line red staff with square notation. There is some water damage on the bottom of the leaves but no loss of text.

  mssHM 82936

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  Collection of leaves from antiphonals, books of hours, and the four books of sentences

  Manuscripts

  A collection of leaves from unidentified antiphonals and books of hours; also a vellum binding and modern ephemera. This collection includes: HM 82932 (1) - Peter Lombard, Bishop of Paris, two leaves of a copy of his Four Books of Sentences; HM 82932 (2-5) - 9 leaves from various antiphonals, with black square notes set on red four line staves with decorated initials; HM 82932 (6-16) - 38 leaves from various books of hours, with mostly black and red ink, decorated initials and illuminated borders.

  mssHM 82932 (1-16)